4 hours agoBorrell: Russian request to cut NATO's eastward expansion
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)The European Union's high representative (BE) for foreign policy, Joseph Borrell, in an interview for the newspaper “Die Welt”, has called Russia's demands for security guarantees and the interruption of EU and NATO's expansion to the East as the Russian “age pure Russian conditions with completely unacceptable”. “Packages for Security Guarantee [...]
“The requirements for security guarantees and the interruption of EU and NATO expansion to the East are a clean Russian agenda with completely unacceptable conditions, especially for Ukraine”, Borrell stressed.
He added that for the first time Moscow submits such written requests, something that has not happened so far, reports Atish.
This is what only winners do, they say these are my terms”, he stressed.
By mid-December, Russia's Foreign Affairs Ministry published drafts of the deal with the US and the agreement with NATO.
The documents have already been submitted to Washington.
In one of the clauses, Moscow proposed that NATO countries provide guarantees to Russia, which would prevent further expansion towards the East, especially Ukrainian territory.
